as in intentness
a mental state free of jesting or trifling
the staidness of the Quaker meeting was surprising to those accustomed to more exuberant services
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As discovered during the Apollo program when astronauts tried to eat sandwiches in space, crumbs from bread can fly around in the absence of gravity and end up in astronauts’ eyes or lungs and get stuck inside equipment, causing damage.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2026 -
Imagine these gravity wells as topographic maps of sorts, where Earth and the moon are two gravitational holes rotating around each other, surrounded by curving hills.—
Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
7 Apr. 2026
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His ability to balance earnestness and whimsy, dedication and delight, have reaped palpable benefits for SummerFest.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
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Taparjan’s voiceover fills the soundtrack with the same earnestness.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Staidness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staidness. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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